Health care reform: It's the lawsuits, stupid!

Writing about President Obama's health care reform, Alex Spillius is right to say that "bringing down costs is going to cost somebody money" and that the president is not being honest in trying to sell a vision of a system in which everybody gets everything all the time without new costs to anybody.

But Spillius writes as if the only solution is some sort of Canadian style hell of morphine-shots-for-everybody (in lieu of real treatments like surgery), waiting lists and rationing. This is not surprising coming from a Brit. Most residents of national health care countries have come to docilely accept their lot.